"We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows,…"

"I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

"What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a sim…"

"The woman's head quickly withdraws, the door to the trailer closes again, but she leaves behind her an unmistakable s…"

"He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess."

"...the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; Londo…"

"It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later,…"

"...Virginia lingers another moment beside the dead bird in its circle of roses. It could be a kind of hat. It could b…"

"A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, on…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."